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<blockquote data-quote="Bennett Prescott" data-source="post: 65853" data-attributes="member: 4"><p>Re: You're welcome.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sure, but I can't just believe anything I want... at least not without looking foolish. For instance, I cannot believe that the sky is puce colored or made out of faucets. I can believe that highway speed limits are intentionally low to create revenue and that drivers are generally good at self selecting their comfort and talent level. There's two different levels of discourse there.</p><p></p><p>My fiancé has a PhD in Biology and is a researcher at Harvard Medical School. She works on yeast genetics and her thesis was on fruit fly genetics. The concept of evolution is very broad and full of interesting nuance, but to believe it doesn't exist is fruitless and does mark you as an idiot. It is fundamental to all genetic science, if it didn't exist and happen every day 75% of biological scientists would be out of a job. It is as fundamental and obvious as your fingers and toes, and directly observable to boot.</p><p></p><p>The Catholic church looks ridiculous today for their treatment of Galileo and other scientific pioneers, their actions were a disservice both to the human race and to the church. Nobody today would be willing to suggest that the universe revolves around the earth, and I'm sure it will take even less time for the same to be true about evolution.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bennett Prescott, post: 65853, member: 4"] Re: You're welcome. Sure, but I can't just believe anything I want... at least not without looking foolish. For instance, I cannot believe that the sky is puce colored or made out of faucets. I can believe that highway speed limits are intentionally low to create revenue and that drivers are generally good at self selecting their comfort and talent level. There's two different levels of discourse there. My fiancé has a PhD in Biology and is a researcher at Harvard Medical School. She works on yeast genetics and her thesis was on fruit fly genetics. The concept of evolution is very broad and full of interesting nuance, but to believe it doesn't exist is fruitless and does mark you as an idiot. It is fundamental to all genetic science, if it didn't exist and happen every day 75% of biological scientists would be out of a job. It is as fundamental and obvious as your fingers and toes, and directly observable to boot. The Catholic church looks ridiculous today for their treatment of Galileo and other scientific pioneers, their actions were a disservice both to the human race and to the church. Nobody today would be willing to suggest that the universe revolves around the earth, and I'm sure it will take even less time for the same to be true about evolution. [/QUOTE]
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